It`s the Turnout, Stupid!

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As Marcus Epstein has noted, the MSM news channels are being swamped by stories about the Hispanic vote, most of them tendentious and inaccurate.

You might think the white vote does not matter. And, in fact, to most of those in control of the MSM, it indeed does not – or, perhaps rather, they (and apparently the Republican Establishment) desperately want to ignore it.

A new report from American University`s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday`s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago – or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.

The report released Thursday estimates that between 126.5 and 128.5 million Americans cast ballots in the presidential election earlier this week. Those figures represent 60.7 percent or, at most, 61.7 percent of those eligible to vote in the country.

“A downturn in the number and percentage of Republican voters going to the polls seemed to be the primary explanation for the lower than predicted turnout,” the report said. Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3 percentage points to 28.7 percent, while Democratic turnout increased by 2.6 points from 28.7 percent in 2004 to 31.3 percent in 2008.”

The 2008 election story is simple. Obama got out the Black, Brown, and anti-white vote. The Republicans did not get out the White vote.

A lot of ink is shed on the vote split. Turnout is almost always neglected. Yet this is where the mother lode of fresh votes lies.

And why did the Republicans fail to turn out their vote? Clearly by nominating a RINO who threw away the issues the base cared about.

Football Team owners have a good way of dealing with this type of situation.